Bar some extra additions in the coming days, the Toronto International Film Festival’s (TIFF) line-up is starting to look pretty sewn up. This week, the festival announced its Centrepiece and TIFF Docs sections – the former is a platform for international cinema old and new, from newcomers to masters; the latter is the festival’s dedicated strand for docs, as the name suggests, although they pop up in other, more prominent sections as well. The 49th edition of TIFF will take place from 5-15 September.

Forty-three titles feature in Centrepiece, with nine of the 18 world premieres being full or part-European productions. Some standouts include Under the Volcano, Polish director Damian Kocur’s follow-up to the much-awarded Bread and Salt [+lee también:
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TIFF Docs is composed of 21 titles, with 13 world premieres, four of which have European involvement. We can’t deny the eye-catching title and premise of a US one, Eddie Huang’s Vice Is Broke, which uncovers the once-cutting-edge media company’s fall from grace. Elsewhere, Lina Vdovîi and Radu Ciorniciuc’s Tata – co-produced by Romania, Germany and the Netherlands – follows the former, a journalist, reuniting with her estranged father after he’s subject to work exploitation. With immense relevance to the ongoing war in Gaza, the omnibus film From Ground Zero sees its North American premiere at the festival. In it, 22 filmmakers, all listed below, contribute a look at the territory beyond the brutal livestreams.

The two line-ups are as follows:

Centrepiece

Front Row - Merck Allouache (Algeria/Saudi Arabia/France)
Pimpinero: Blood and Oil - Andrés Baiz (Colombia)
Measures for a Funeral - Sofia Bohdanowicz (Canada)
Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara - Erin Lee Carr (USA)
Happy Holidays [+lee también:
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entrevista: Scandar Copti
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Don’t Cry, Butterfly - Dương Diệu Linh (Vietnam/Singapore/Philippines/Indonesia)
Beloved Tropic - Ana Endara (Panama/Colombia)
To a Land Unknown [+lee también:
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entrevista: Mahdi Fleifel
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Los Tortuga - Belén Funes (Spain/Chile)
The Village Next to Paradise [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] - Mo Harawe (Austria/France/Germany/Somalia)
By the Stream - Hong Sangsoo (South Korea)
The Mountain - Rachel House (New Zealand)
Sunshine - Antoinette Jadaone (Philippines)
Ka Whawhai Tonu - Struggle Without End - Michael Jonathan (New Zealand)
The Swedish Torpedo - Frida Kempff (Sweden)
Under the Volcano - Damian Kocur (Poland)
April [+lee también:
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entrevista: Dea Kulumbegashvili
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Cloud - Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Japan)
The Story of Souleymane [+lee también:
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An Unfinished Film - Lou Ye (Singapore/Germany)
Addition - Marcelle Lunam (Australia)
The Mother and the Bear - Johnny Ma (Canada/Chile)
Sweet Angel Baby - Melanie Oates (Canada)
My Sunshine [+lee también:
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entrevista: Hiroshi Okuyama
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Kill the Jockey [+lee también:
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entrevista: Luis Ortega
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Jane Austen Wrecked My Life - Laura Piani (France)
Matt and Mara - Kazik Radwanski (Canada)
Universal Language - Matthew Rankin (Canada)
The Seed of the Sacred Fig [+lee también:
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entrevista: Mohammad Rasoulof
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When the Light Breaks [+lee también:
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entrevista: Rúnar Rúnarsson
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Seven Days - Ali Samadi Ahadi (Germany)
A Missing Part - Guillaume Senez (Belgium/France)
Presence - Steven Soderbergh (USA)
Happyend - Neo Sora (Japan/USA)
Edge of Night - Türker Süer (Germany/Turkey)
Santosh [+lee también:
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entrevista: Sandhya Suri
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Crocodile Tears - Tumpal Tampubolon (Indonesia/France/Singapore/Germany)
Anywhere Anytime [+lee también:
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entrevista: Milad Tangshir
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The Legend of the Vagabond Queen of Lagos - Agbajowo Collective (Nigeria/Germany/South Africa/USA)
Little Jaffna [+lee también:
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entrevista: Lawrence Valin
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Julie Keeps Quiet [+lee también:
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entrevista: Leonardo van Dijl
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Bound in Heaven - Xin Huo (China)
Flow [+lee también:
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entrevista: Gints Zilbalodis
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TIFF Docs

No Other Land [+lee también:
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entrevista: Basel Adra y Yuval Abraham
ficha de la película] - Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor (Palestine/Norway)
A Sisters’ Tale [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] - Leila Amini (Switzerland/France/Iran)
Temporary Shelter - Anastasiia Bortuali (Iceland)
So Surreal: Behind the Mask - Neil Diamond, Joanne Robertson (Canada)
Living Together - Halima Elkhatabi (Canada)
The Freedom of Fierro - Santiago Esteinou (Mexico/Canada/Greece)
Men of War - Jen Gatien, Billy Corben (USA/Canada)
Vice Is Broke - Eddie Huang (USA)
Wishing on a Star [+lee también:
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entrevista: Peter Kerekes
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The Last of the Sea Women - Sue Kim (USA)
Mistress Dispeller - Elizabeth Lo (China/USA)
Sudan, Remember Us [+lee también:
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From Ground Zero - Wissam Moussa, Nidal Damo, Ahmed Hassouna, Alaa Ayoub, Karim Satoum, Bashar Al Babisi, Khamis Masharawi, Nida’A Abu Hasna, Tamer Nijim, Ahmed Al Danaf, Rima Mahmoud, Muhammad Al Sharif, Basil El Maqousi, Mustafa Al Nabih, Rabab Khamis, Mustafa Kulab, Alaa Damo, Hana Eleiwa, Mahdi Kreirah, Aws Al Banna, Islam Al Zeriei, Etimad Washah (Palestine/France/Qatar/Jordan)
Blue Road - The Edna O’Brien Story - Sinéad O’Shea (Ireland/UK)
Patrice: The Movie - Ted Passon (USA)
Ernest Cole, Lost and Found [+lee también:
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The Last Republican - Steve Pink (USA)
Space Cowboy - Marah Strauch, Bryce Leavitt (USA)
Russians at War - Anastasia Trofimova (Canada/France)
Tata - Lina Vdovîi, Radu Ciorniciuc (Romania/Germany/Netherlands)
Your Tomorrow - Ali Weinstein (Canada)